No man underestimates the wrongs he suffers; many take them more seriously than is right.
SALLUSTIt is a law of human nature that in victory even the coward may boast of his prowess, while defeat injures the reputation even of the brave.
More Sallust Quotes
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all – they produced an oyster.
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For harmony makes small states great, while discord undermines the mightiest empires.
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Distinguished ancestors shed a powerful light on their descendants, and forbid the concealment either of their merits or of their demerits.
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But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
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Before you act consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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The Gods being good and making all things, there is no positive evil, it only comes by absence of good; just as darkness itself does not exist, but only comes about by absence of light.
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Get good counsel before you begin; and when you have decided, act promptly.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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Everything destroyed is either resolved into the elements from which it came, or else vanishes into not-being. If things are resolved into the elements from which they came, then there will be others: else how did they come into being at all?
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Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.
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The poorest of men are the most useful to those seeking power.
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Fame is the shadow of passion standing in the light.
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A good man prefers to suffer rather than overcome injustice with evil.
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When the prizes fall to the lot of the wicked, you will not find many who are virtuous for virtue’s sake.
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